In another attack on our security, U.S. District Judge Audrey B. Collins declared unconstitutional two provisions of Executive Order 13224 (signed by Bush, Sept. 23, 2001). This will make it easier for money to be raised for foreign terror groups within the USA.
EO 13224 put a halt to fund transfers to groups known to be terrorists and known to have perpetrated violence in their cause. In particular, this case was brought by the self-immolating Humanitarian Law Project — an imitation of the ACLU — to protect the stress-free lending and funding sources of the Tamil Tigers (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam- Sri Lanka) and the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK- Turkey), both of which have perpetrated acts of terror for many years in their respective countries.
This fellow traveling LA judge is just part of the nation wide network of those domestic operatives ideologically opposed to our security and who have been doing their level best to knock down every measure taken to find and destroy terror networks both within and without the USA.
On this subject, that of funding outside terror networks, I have always been ashamed that we here in the USA never tried to stop the millions of dollars in donations that went to the NRA in Ireland during the “troubles” there. In fact, I don’t ever recall a single voice being heard raising the subject at all.
US citizens who donated money to the IRA contributed to the murder of hundreds of British citizens and gave succor to terrorism for decades and I feel that the USA should have stopped such money transfers. Now we have a chance to do that with the support of the citizens of the USA, at least for other, contemporary terror networks.
But, not if these obstructionist judges have their way. If they have their way we will see Americans funding their own demise with donations sent to terrorist groups. And even if the money goes to terrorism for other causes, ones not turned against our own, does that make it any better to allow our financial support to assist terror against others?
These out of control judges need to be brought under some kind of review. Jefferson had it right…
“The germ of destruction of our nation is in the power of the judiciary, an irresponsible body — working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief over the field of jurisdication, until all shall render powerless the checks of one branch over the other and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.”– Thomas Jefferson, 1821
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackU.S and other nations should come out with a list of organisation which are nationalistic groups using violence and terrorist groups which are using violence.
As far as tamil tigers are concerned, it’s a tamil national group which is fighting for tamileelam’s independence.
In jaffna, for half a million tamil population there are 50000 Srilankan army, which means 1 out of 10 are army men. Even no body can go for toilet without their knowledge.
Economic blockade by Srilankan government has created the situation much worse.
In these kind of situations, blind policies adopted by US could push the situation much worse. US should clearly differentiate between the freedom fighters like LTTE and terrorists like
Al-qaeda to strictly use the law.
The very bold statement that is made by every nation including the U.S. is that LTTE are terrorists which doesn’t make any sense at all. LTTE, in the history of their existence, did not pose a single threat to any country other than their homeland. They have been fighting for the freedom of tamil people in their homeland for decades and thus rules them out from terrorist activities. If what the LTTE commits is considered terrorism then the acts of the Sri Lankan government would be considered a word too little to be described by terrorism. The singhalese have been blindfolding the world’s perspective ever since they came into rule. The nations needs to learn to distinguish between acts of terrorism and acts of self defence. They need to learn to distinguish between LTTE and Al-qaeda.
I just posted an article about overseas charitable funding going to terror groups in the Philippines.
The difference between a liberator/insurgent and terrorist is in tactics.
Terrorists aim at “soft” targets e.g. civilians.
Freedom fighters fight the army/government only.
Some “freedom fighters” rob and steal and kidnap and smuggle drugs.
The problem is that if you give into a group that breaks the law you end up with a corrupt government.
After all, if you are used to a lot of money from kidnapping and robbing banks, you can’t make that much as a civil servant, so you end up taking bribes to supplement your salary.
But if you give into a group that kills civilians as a means to get power, you end up with a government willing to kill it’s own people: e.g. Zimbabwe, Mao’s China, USSR…
In unerstanding wthere there is a need to differentiate between the LTTE and Al Quieda, there is a greater need to understand the history and the activities of the organization in its entirety. There is also the much easier task of understanding the meaning of the word ‘Terrorism’ which would make the larger perspective much simpler for juvenile minds.
For those who have studied the two organizations, Al-Quida pales into insignificance when compared to the LTTE; the true masters of international and domestic terror.
Let me make it simpler; A ‘terrosist’ isn’t someone who attacks a white man or a western nation. The world belongs to others too.
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